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“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“Are you well? You look a trifle peaked.”
“If I do, it is because black doesn't become me. I mean to lighten my mourning, and have ordered a charming gray gown.”
“You are mistaken.”
“What, in going into half-mourning?”
“No, in thinking black does not become you.”
― Georgette Heyer, Bath Tangle

“Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
― judy blume

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“But, for those who love, Time does not exist.”
― Jane Odiwe, Searching for Captain Wentworth

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“At dusk in the Temple Gardens the barrier between past and present turned fluid and ghosts walked. Here and there if Buckler looked closely he caught a glimpse of knights filing toward the ancient round Church, heads bowed in penitence…Buckler didn’t mind the spirits. In fact, he preferred their company to that of the general run of human. For the ghosts reminded him that man’s petty cares, so all consuming in life, would one day become nothing more than fit matter for an amusing story.”
― S.K. Rizzolo, The Rose in the Wheel